Recording of a performance by the hudke bard Pratap Dholi of Bhatgaun assisted by Jain Man Dhole of Bhatgaun, Jogi Dhole of Sirola, and Dumre Dhole of Tatar. Recorded on 14 November 1969 by Marc Gaborieau and Mireille Helffer of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). The recordings were made on a Nagra recorder at 9,5cm/s and on cassette. The digitalized version has been mounted from digitalizations of tapes archived at the Centre pour la Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM), Université de Paris-X, Nanterre, France (http://crem.parisson.com). The tracks are catalogued as "POEME HEROIQUE DE BHARAT". A recording on cassettes (not yet archived) was made at the same time as the tapes. The sound file is composed of 2 regions: #1 00:00:00,000 to 00:42:00,234 length: 00:42:00,234; #2 00:42:00,234 to 01:14:16,393 length: 0:32:16,159; these are the digitalizations of the following original tapes, joined end to end: BM_70_041_020; BM_70_041_021; It is clear from the cassette recording that the performance was interrupted during the tape-change and that nothing was lost. The recording begins ~9 min. into cassette 4A, and continues on 4B and 5A to 18:31.